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A Lousy Admission Offer From Cornell

on April 7, 2013 in Uncategorized

Every Friday I answer questions over at The College Solution’s Facebook page. Posting questions on Friday via my Facebook page is  the best way to get my attention. Lots of people email me, but I just can’t answer all the queries, which makes me feel guilty. My husband calls it the Catholic-school-girl guilt that I [...]

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25 Colleges with the Best Professors

on February 26, 2013 in Academic quality, Academics, College rankings, Evaluating Schools, Research

Where do the best college professors teach? This is an important question, particularly when you consider that traditional college professors are disappearing. Less than one out of three teachers on college campuses today are tenured or on the tenured track. Most college students today are being taught primarily by graduate students and part-time faculty. (See [...]

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Can College Rankings Giant Keep Schools from Cheating?

on February 6, 2013 in Admissions, College rankings, Evaluating Schools, Research

The steady trickle of colleges and universities that have admitted to fudging the figures that they send to U.S. News & World Report could end up changing the college rankings submission rules. In an interview published today in Inside Higher Ed, Brian Kelly, the editor and chief content officer at U.S. News, said that the [...]

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Surprise: Where Harvard Law Students Got Their Undergrad Degrees

on October 10, 2012 in Academic quality, Academics, California universities, College rankings, Evaluating Schools, Graduate degrees, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Research, Universities

Today I’m passing along a fascinating list that comes from Harvard Law School. The list you see below includes the 261 colleges and universities where members of the Class of 2013 law school students come from. Michelle Kretzschmur, the creator of Do-It-Yourself College Rankings sent me the link to the list because she knows how [...]

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Don’t Be Fooled by Priority Applications

on September 24, 2012 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying

Note: I wrote this post about priority applications a year ago, but it’s just as timely now. LO I received an email yesterday from a friend of mine whose son is a brilliant high school senior. She wanted to know what they should think about invitations her son has received to apply to colleges through [...]

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How U.S. News’ College Rankings Can Hurt You

on September 12, 2012 in Admission practices, Admissions, College rankings, Evaluating Schools, Research

Note: I will be conducting my quarterly college workshops through the University of California, San Diego Extension on Sept. 22 and 29. Please scroll to the bottom of this post to learn more. Lynn O. At midnight East Coast time, U.S. News & World Report released its 2013 college rankings. And what a shocker – [...]

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